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2. Yes they are. India has an endogenous version and several other countries...
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 09:53 PM
Feb 2025

...have them: South Korea, Romania, and China, I believe.

They can run on uranium extracted from used nuclear fuel in a cycle known as the Dupic cycle.

Chris Keefer, a Canadian physician who has a second career as a nuclear energy advocate, has argued strongly that Canada should want no part of US nuclear power technology and should rely wholly on Canadian designs, Canadian fuel, and Canadian manufacturing. This is certainly understandable as the US has gone insane and is led by a dangerous criminal imperialist. However, it eliminates the potential to exploit the real advantage of the Candu, which is to increase the world inventory of fissionable nuclides without relying on enrichment. Such a program would reduce, even eliminate, the need for uranium mining.

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